Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1933, Page 14

THE Bonus in Sight-for Griff Slab CROWDER HAS YET TOMISS EXTRAPAY ".Never-Fail” Argument Won Agreement From Prexy Contingent on Flag. By a Staff Corresppndent of The Star. 10,000 turned out to see the Nationals make a strong start the year with Clark Griffith himself No. 1 rooter for the championship chas- ing club. The Washington prexy had said he believe in hunches, string | Would join the club here late in the along with Alvin Crowder‘“'”“- but he surprised all hands by and make it heavy that| breezing into the Nationals’ hotel bright : R ~ |and early yesterday morning. He said ::2 ):‘:;l;::l;efi:i;:‘m hemtmes | he might return home after this series, h but hotel reservations all along the The General had a hunch they | ;o for Grifith are being made by would when he talked turkey with | secretary Ed Eynon. Clark Griffith before signing.a contract last Winter, took a long | he’s making this entire trip with us” chance on collecting extra dough | the secretary decided. “He’s the best if they did and since in a practi- mascot we've ever had cal way has done plenty to put his | oOWCt, o o amount of victories club across. | scorad this season, but he also enjoys Throwing all he had into his outfit's the distinction of being the only Wash- game with the White Sox here vester- | Ington hurler ;:;;‘tt; [L000ibetking sae day. Crowder not only subdued the OP- | eral yesterday walked in the third in- position with the cunning of his pitch- | ning. the first time he faced Jones. He icked | doubled ‘to start the sixth and singled ing arm, but he also swung a wicked| [Fo1t the eighth. With one out in bat to give the Nationals a great start | 1> Sift e SRR o Ceving for on this tour of the West that means 0 g one-baser. much to them in their pennant pur- sutt. : Opening a four-game series here, the veteran right-hand hurler held the Fonseca phalanx at bay after it had speared its way 10 a scant gain early in the fray, then headed two counter-attacks that brought about a 5-tol defeat of the Chicago clan. As a result of the General's latest activity in the championship campaign, the Nationals are leading the league with an advantage of 5!; games over their most menacing rivals, the Yan- kees, who also started their Western invesion with a triumph over the Browns in St. Louis. BY JOHN B. KELLER. HICAGO, August 16.—If you | Crowder not only leads the Wash- “Who's gonna pitch for Wash- ingtcn in the opeming game of the world series?” that's what Chicago fans are asking now. In this town, they are sold on the Nationals. Windy City fans can't see the Yanks in any way. Their club will have a chance to give the Cronin_crew a great boost soon. The Yanks follow the Na- tionals here for a series of four es in three days. The boys are saying Fonseca's gang will put the New Yorks on the spot. Foot ball dealt base ball a severe blow here vesterday. Five hundred coaches of the gridiron sport, gathered HICAGO, August 16.—More than on this final Western swing of “Clark may not think so now, but | Griffith Best Mascot His Club Ever Had, Eynon Holds, Booking Boss For Entire Western Trip in convention, attended the opener of hhg series between Nationals and White {So.. as guests ' of ‘ President Louis Comiskey. ~ After the contest, the foot jball crowd commandeered all taxicabs {in the vicinity of the ball park, thus | compelling the big league ball players im take street cars back to their hotel. | . YROWDER did not have to exert | himself in the first frame. Swan- son swung at the first pitch and lined to Myer. Haas also lunged at the first offering and sent a long fly to Goslin. Kress fouled off the second | :ptuh to him with Sewell getting the out. | Maybe the Chisox meant to try a double-steal in the second session, but when Rhyne set sail for second base with Dykes on the far corner all that | happened was the erasure of Rhyne. | Instead of throwing to the middle base, | Sewell pegged directly to Myer about | two yards off the station. Evidently | | fearful of a return throw, Dykes hugged | | third as Myer wheeled to tag out Rhyne. ty-two games in a row with hits Manush. The big Dutchman stretched his second long socking string | of the season to that length when he dragged a bunt by Jones for a single |in the fourth. Schulte’s liner in the fourth was so hard hit it knocked Apping off his feet. The shortstop managed to cling to the sphere, however, and tossed to double | Manush off second base. Rhyne's bunt in the fifth in- ning that went for a sacrifice came near being a single. Crowder skidded and fell on the turf as he reached for the ball, finally re- trieving it to throw from a sit- ting position for an eyelash de- cision, Kress had an error marked against him in the seventh when he camped |under a foul from Kuhel's bat only to muff a catch. But Kuhel promptly let a third strike go by. | | Ted Lyons, who swings & mean bat | for a pitcher, went in to bat for Jones in the Chisox eighth. All Ted did was force out Berry, who had begun the in- ning with a single. J.B.K General Never Has Failed. “THEN the General was discussing contractural matters w\l':h l}:‘ra- | S a RO“' ident Griffith of the Washing- | ' ton ball club last Winter, he knew the even In a prexy was supposed to have cast aside as unworthy the scheme of distributing bonuses to Nationals for extraordinary service. Why pay a player extra money for something he was excepted to ac- complish anyway? That had been gr Griffith’s argument. . So Crowder made no plea for a bonus conditional upon the winning of so many games. In fact, he expressed his delight at the salary written into the contract. But befcre affixing his sig- HORPISIIPS-) Crowder, p. | Totals . CHICAGO. nature to the paper, the pitcher men- tioned that he had never failed to col- lect a bonus that had been among the ;lerms of previous contracts signed by im. Griffith thought that over, then agreed that the General was right. | That was the cpening Crowder sought, “We're winning the pennant this year, Mr. Griffith,” the Gen- | eral predicted. “What’s more, I'm | the pitcher that will get it for | you. Now, I'm not asking for any bonus based on winning a par- ticular number of games. I'll gamble with you,” Crowder came | across. | “When we win—and I've a real hunch we will—and it so happens that I've turned in more wins than any other pitcher on your club, I'll want a little added to the figures in that contract, You don't have to write in the amount now. Just let me know how you feel about it. Thatl] go with me,” said | Al | “And remémber.” he added, “T've| never missed collecting a bonus offered me.” Works Four Days in Six. T MUST have been that final shot that decided Griffith. Anyway, Crowder gets the extra dough if he fills the bill. And it doesn't look at the | present writing as though he could lose. | How this fellow Crowder has worked | for the Nationals this season! He has | been in 39 games. more than any other pitcher of the staff has toiled in. With 2221-3 innings to his credit. he has seen much more active service than | any slabmate. And with 19 victories he is well ahead of any other Washing- ton hurler in the winning' list, & He took the hill yesterday for the fourth time in six days to turn in his nineteenth success of the season. He had hurled in Boston last Thursday and Fri- day to score victories over the Red Sox. He had wound up Sun- day’'s game in Washington in great style just when the Yankees seemed on the verge of breaking through to a tie at least. Opening the series here, he was nicked for nine safeties by the White Sox. Two, a double by Appling and a triple by Dykes, were bunched in the second inning for the only run against ' him. After that he checked the foe nicely until the last two rounds. In each of these two hits were gleaned off him. But a splendid throw by Cronin that cut down a runner at the plate in the eighth and another fine heave by Goslin that retired an over-ambitious base runner in the ninth eased the General out of what might have been serious situations. . With a double, two singles and a walk, Crowder led the Wash- ington attack. His double amd one of his singles blazed the way to scoring sorties. The doubdle, followed by singles by Myer, Manush and Schulte, accounted for three runs in the sizth inning. A single by Al, backed by one- basers by Myer and Goslin and a long fiy by Cronin, meant two more markers in the eighth. “The Nationals leaped on theit old pal, | Sad Sam Jones, for the game. He re- tired after eight innings of work. Joe Heving hurled the ninth to give up but one hit, Crowder’s second single that boosted the Nationals' safety total to nine. Griffs’ Records BATTING. R. 2b. H. b. HR.Rbi.Pet. &3 180 20 11 3 60 .338 o czsommanE s PECETTISeeY tewart 25 Chapman 1 CLUB BATTING. . R, H. 2b. 3b H.R Rbl 0 380 021 1i6a 105 67 46 5 Crowder sansaa~nl ons. if ADEIml Dykes, Jones. p *Lyons E Heving, .. TOUS < eistonis e 2290 B *Batted for Jones in eizhth. Washington ...... 00 000302 0—5 Chicago 1370100000001 tted in—Goslin. Manush. Cronin, Dykes., Two-base hits—Crow- Dykes. Three-base hit—Dykes. n base—Manush. _ Sacrifice—Rhyne Double plays—Bluege to Myer to Kuhel. Ap- pling to Rhyne. Left on bases—Washington 6 Chicago. 5. First base on balls—Off Struck_out—By Crowder. 1: by Jone: Hits—Off Jones, R in R innings: off Heving 1 in 1 _inning. Hit by pitched ball—By Crowder (Rhyne). Losing pitcher— Jones. Umpires—Messrs. Moriarty. Geisel and Kolls. Major Leaders By the Associated Press. (Including yesterday's games.) American League. Batting—Foxx, Athletics, .360; Sim- mons, White Sox, .352. A Runs—Gehrig, Yankees, 95; Foxx, thletics, 94. Runs batted in—Foxx. Athletics, 122; Simmons, White Sox, 102. Hits—Simmons, White Sox, 162; Ma- nush, Senators, 160. Doubles—Burhs, Browns, 35; Appling, White Sox, 34 Triples—Combs. Yankees, 13; Myer, Senators, and Reynolds. Browns, 12. Home runs—Foxx, Athletics, 35; Ruth, Yankees, 26. Stolen bases—Chapman, Yankees, 19; ‘Walker, Tigers, 18. Pitching — Grove, Athletics, Whitehill, Senators, 15-6. National League. Batting—Klein, Phillies, .374; Terry, | | Giants, .344. Runs—Martin, 89; P. Waner, Pirates, 74 Runs batted in—Klein, Phillies, 95; Vaughan. Pirates, 74. Hits—Klein, Phillies, 160; Fullis, Phil- lies, 150. Doubles—Klein, Phillies. 36: P. Waner. Pirates, and Medwick, Cardinals, 32. Triples—Vaughan, Pirates, 16; ‘Waner, Pirates. 12. Home runs—Berger, Braves, 20; Klein, Phillies, 19. Cardinals, Stolen bases—Martin, Cardinals, 16; | Frisch, Cardinals, 13. Pitching—Cantwell, Braves, 16-7; Hal- | Iaohgn, Cardinals, 14-7; Parmelee, Giants, 10-5. Stars Yesterday By the Associated Press Alvin Crowder, Senators—Pitched and gatted Senators to victory over White ox. Randy Moore, Braves—Doubled in leinth to drive in run that beat Cubs, -1 Roger Cramer, Athletics—Clouted homer and three singles against Indians. Henry Johnson, Red Sox—Scattered Detroit hits and fanned seven for 5-3 victory. Bill Hallahan, Cardinals — Limited Phillies to six hits. Prank Crosetti, Yankees—Knocked in three runs against Browns with double and single, Major Leag AMERICAN YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Washington, 5; Chicago, 1. k. 8; St. Louis. 5. 8: Cleveland, 7. troit, 3. 18-6; | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1933. 'DODGERS WILL KEEP | ' CAREY, BOSSES AVER 0 Rail Birds Insist, However, Max Will Be Removed From Helm | of Floundering Club. ‘ By the Associated Press. | EW YORK, August 16.—The Rail- birds entered a new candidate today in the race for the job of managing the -Brooklyn Dodgers next season, a job that, for no other reason than that the club is going terribly, has been taken from Max Carey by unanimous consent of all but the clud owners. * The club officials, in fact, have de- nied that they intend replacing Carey either this season or next, but the base ball sharps believe that a new manager 1s certain to be named The latest nominee is Casey Stengel, | coach with the club, who managed To- ledo in the American Association after his big league outfield career with the Dodgers, Pirates, Philiies and Giants | was thiough Gabby Street, recently | | replaced by Frankie Frisch at the Car- | dinals’ helm, also has been mentioned. | _ Painstaking analysts point out that | Stengel is peculiarly fitted for the job | of managing Brooklyn. He once startled a park full of people when he doffed his hat at the plate in solemn acknowl- | | edgement of a tribute, and a small bird | flew out. He had caught it in the out- field during his spare moments. FOR FIREMEN’S RELIEF Smoke-Eaters and Police of Arling- ton in Diamond Tilt. Arlington County (Va.) Police and Firemen will clash in a base ball game | for the Firemen's relief fund Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock on the Arlington diamond. The Police hav announced a line-up comprising Duncan, third base; Wilt, | right fleld; Woodyard, left field; Con- way, shortstop: Miller, second base; Cobean, first base: Scott, catcher, Crack | | and Burke, pitchers, and Langley, re- | serve. The Firemen plan to use this array: C. Snoots, pitcher: Charles Snoots, shortstop; David Watson, second base; A. Watson, right field; Harvey Hatch, | third base; Joe Doyle, center field; | George F. Cook. first base; Rufus Trice, | | left field, and C. E. Scheffel, catcher. 119 IN WOMEN'S GOLF 32 Will Qualify for Match Play . in U. S. Title Tourney. NEW YORK, August 16 (#).—A field of 119 will start play in the 18-hole qualifying round of the women's na- tional, golf championship at Exmoor | Country Club, Highland Park, Ill, Au- gust 28. Virginia_Van Wie, defending cham- | pion, has been paired with Mrs. H. G. | Higbie of Detroit in the contest for the 32 qualifying places for match play. Other prominent pairings are Enid | Wilson of England and Peggy Wattles | of Buffalo, Maureen Orcott of Haworth, N. J. and Mrs. L. D. Cheney of San Gabriel, Calif.; Helen Hicks, Hewlett, |N. ¥, and Mrs. S. L. Reinhardt, Ravinia, 1l Beatrice Gottlieb of | Tuckahoe, N. Y., and Rena L. Nelson | of Highland Park, IIl; Mrs. Opal S. | Hill of Kansas City and Kathryn | Hemphill of Columbia, S. C.; Bernice Wall of Glen Ellyn, and Edith Quier of Reading, Pa. ue Statistics NATIONAL YESTERDAY'S RESULTS. Boston, 2; Chicago, 1. % ia, 1. 8t Louis. 5; Philadelph Other clubs not scheduled. ¢ aN| wiida) 0, [ u grows | wTuaapeIIad T EAN0OIH -onmurds * *puryaq Soumv ) F Wsh.(—[12110/ 7| 01 _O114110171138/.6511. 3101634315041 N_Y.| 7101 0] 9I_9111110/65/431.602/ b% Pitts.[ 5/—I10/10/ 7| 81 9(12(611481.5601 3% PhILI 61 71—I 71121 bl 811 7 Chi..|_71121—| 71111 8 8| 8i611501.550 4% Det..1_61 416 107 711 s St.L. 8/ 6/10/—I_5/10] 611560 [6_ Clev.| 41 &i_4/10/—] 9I10/13155/691.481118% Bost.[ 91 7| 6/10/—! 8I111_KI59| Chi..|_6l bl 8110/ 7I—| 2/131511581.46813 Phil.| 5 6| 41 6| Di—| 7/10145/021-421118% Bost.| 41 5111 9] 5| 9i—| 5148/601.444122% BKIn.| 5| 5/ 4] 71 0/10/—]| 4143/621.410/19% St. LI 5/ 51 4] 6| 71 7 8/—i421721.368131% Cin_.T 41 61 9] %7I_6| 4| 8/—I44/671.396121% Lost. [8143/53/58/50/58/60/72—I—!___| Lost. [33148/50152152162162167/—I—| | GAMES TODAY. at Chicago, York at St 3 GAMES TOMORROW. ash, New | Fa%. GAMES TODAY Cincin. at New Yorl t BkI™D. ( GAMES TOMORROW. SRR ST GEHRIG WILL EQUAL SCOTT MARK TODAY Due to Play 1,306th Game in Row—Braves May Smooth Way for Giants. BY HUGH S. FULLERTON, JR. (Associated Press Sports Writer). HILE "American League base ball fans had their eyes turned toward St. Louis and Lou Gehrig's approaching record, those who follow the National League were watching the Boston Braves today and, wondering if they would nominate themselves as official “softeners” of the Western clubs for the New York Giants. Gehrig, who played his 1,306th con- secutive game Yankees and set the batting pace with three hits as they beat the Browns, 8 to 5. yesterday, was due to equal “Dea- con” Everett Scott’s major league dur- ability record today, barring rain, in- Jjuries or other mishaps. Trim Cubs as Starter. HE Braves started their home stand against the third-place _ Chicago Cubs in a manner which renuinded fans of their famoud 1926 ieat, when they bumped all four West- ern clubs in succession and practically took charge of the pennant race al- though they finished in seventh place. Yesterday their stunt was to make five htis of Guy Bush good for a 2-to-1 victory over the Cubs, first of three Western pennant contenders who visit Braves Field before moving on to New York to tackle the league-leading Giants in their current tour. Every one of Boston’s hits counted in the scoring while Ben Cantwell man- aged to hold Chicago to a single un- earned run for his sixteenth victory of the year, although he gave 10 blows. Two hits produced a Brave run in the | second, and with the score tied in the | | ninth 'Buck Jordan and Wally Berger | hit singles and Randy Moore came through with a double to send in the winning tally. This result dropped the Cubs a full game behind the idle Pittsburgh Pirates and kept the Braves close behind the fourth-place St. Louis Cardinals, whé | won the only other game on the Na- | tional League program. With Bill Hal- lahan pitching six-hit ball, the Cards trimmed the Phillies, 5 to 1. HE Yankee victory, gained largely through a five-run rally in the fourth that drove Jack Knott to cover and aided by Herb Pennock’s re- lief pitching when Johnny Allen weak- | ened, served only to keep the world champions 5'; games behind Washing- | ton. Trailing the Chicago White Sox in the early innings, the Senators whaled Sam Jones for four hits and three runs in the sixth and went on to win, 5 to 1. Al Crowder helped himself to his nineteenth victory of the season | by starting two Washington rallies. A prospective mound duel between Lefty Grove and right-handed Wes Fer- rell turned out to be a slugging match 25 the Philadelphia Athletics beat out the Cleveland Indians, 8-7. Ferrell vielded 14 hits, while the Indians in- serted six extra-base blows among their nine ofl Grove. The Boston Red Sox | evened their series with Detroit by a 5-3 victory as they rapped Fred Mar- berry for “three doubles in the cighth to tally three runs after the big flinger had started the inning with a walk. Minor Leagues Y International. Buffalo, 8-11; Baltimore, 7-14. Albany, 10; Montreal, 1. Rochester, 9; Jersey City, 5. Toronto, 8; Newark, 2. American Association. Minneapolis, 13; Louisville, 6. Columbus, 8-5; Milwaukee, 4-12 Indianapolis, 10; St. Paul, 7 (13 in- nings). Kansas City, 9; Toledo, 1. Southern Association. Nashville, 5; New Orleans, 4 (10 in- nings). Little Rock. 6-4; Atlanta, 4-1. Knoxville, 7-2; Memphis, 5-1. Birmingham, 11; Chattanooga, 0. Pacific Coast, Hollywood, 5; Portland. 3. Los Angeles, 3: Sacramento, 0. Missions, 18: Seattle, 12. Oakland, 3; San Francisco, 2. New York-Pennsylvania. Williamsport, 3: Elmira, 1. Reading, 3-0; Binghamton, 1-5. Wilkes-Barre, 5-4; York, 1-0. Others not scheduled. Texas. Beaumont, 3: Galveston, 1. Dallas, 5; Oklahoma City, 1 Houston, 4; San Antonio, 3. Fort Worth, 8; Tulsa, 6. Piedmont. Durham, 4; Winston-Salem, 3. Greensboro at Charlotte, rain. ‘Western. Joplin, 7; Omaha, 3. Springfield, 9; Des Moines, 3. St. Joseph, 8: Muskogee, 4. ‘Topeka, Bartlesville, 3 JACK ‘HAGEN’S ACE WINS Remains Lone Golfer of Hole-in- One Tourney to Hit Cup. NEW YORK, August 16 () —They fired 'em high and they fired 'em low, but when the battle' was over, the last spade mashie sheathed, Jack Hagen remained today the only golfer who ever stepped up to a tee in competi- tion for that purpose alone and fired himself a hole in one. In all 340 golfers, all accredited members of the Hole-in-One Club, sought to duplicate their best prevircls efforts in the second annual e tournament staged by the World-Tele- gram on the 148-yard third hole at Salisbury. They fired 1,698 shots at the pin on the plateau green, with everything from spoons and midirons down to sand wedges, but Hagen's ace was the only one produced. Homer Standing By the Associated Press. Home runs yesterday—Fox, Tigers, 1; Cramer, Athletics, 1; Vosmik, In- dians, 1. The leaders — Foxx, Athletics, ,35; Ruth, Yankees, 26; Berger, Braves, 20; Gehrig, Yankees, 20; Klein, Phillies, 19. American. Philadelphia with the New York| THE MOST DANGEROUS FOE ™ e e S A 1 e et A3 A e ot Back Stage in Sports | | Babe Ruth Packs a Punch Even When He Can’t Hit. I Griff Is Careful. D BY TOM DOERER. ESPITE the clouting pro- clivities of Jimmy Foxx, the distance banger on the Athletics, his team is not | able to get any closer to the top LARK GRIFFITH is not geéting overenthused over the Senat flag fight. Not that Uncle lack: supreme confidence that his team is the best in the league. He simply is not willing to concede the flag to his hired men until they get far enough out in front to be able to stand a slump with- out tottering off the throne. And there's another angle to Griff's refusal to break out into a rash of enthusiasm over a coming series in which his team would participate. Uncle has seen them before. He knows that théxe is plenty o, work to handling the event, not as much cash jingling for the winning club owners as many imagine and that there is always an after eflect which re- sults in more salary for a lot of than a far-away third. Nor is Chicago banging at any one’s door of opportunity, despite the top-of- ‘the-heap batting on the part of Al Simmons. | Which goes to prove, if proof be neeced, that it takes more than a scin- tillating star to push a team up to the | farthermost rung of the ladder. | Though team work, as exemplified by | the Senators, is ‘the only sure pop his young men. modus_operandl in a pennant flight, the However, the feeling is that Uncle will long-distance drop of Babe Ruth has begin to shout when his boys get 10 | done more to keep the Yankzes off the games out in front. He may not be as throne than any one other mishap |YOUNE as he was when the Senators ¢ | copped their first flag, back in 24, and which has happened tg the once mighty | his"fire may be dimmed, but there will | czars of punch. | be something more than grins coming But whether the return of long out there at the sign of the deer head. and loud poking of the Mighty Bam would restore the New t THE dorks o the pisce s 2wl | \\MORLD SERIES), be a big help in yanking the Yanks out of the doldrums in which they have been mired since oon | the Great Man showed that he Lok Bean | HERE A was not what he once was. But Babe's hitting alone would win no bunting. Babe’s color, however, remains as brilliant as ever. The Bam can g0 punchless for days, then hit one over | into the lumber yard to get a greater | ovation than Jimmy Foxx would receive | for bolting three of them over and be- | yond Babe's pet nesting place. | The difference between the Bam and Jimmy is that one lives base ball the | year arourd while the other is glad to | get away from it when the recess bell taps. EISOH can go into the club house after a Yank game and find the Babe talking base ball as excitedly as if he was a rook. You will find him gabbing on the pastime in the hotel, and I'm sure that | | when the Babe pulls the coverlets over | his ears at night he is muttering some- | thing about the diamond. Foxx, on the other hand, is mighty provd of his dairy farm down therz near Sudlersville, Eastern Sho’ of Mary- land. James will pull out his briar pipe in the locker room of the Athletics be- | fore and after a game to talk cows and | silos any time. lelle he is pepped = Still another angle to the gray pilot’s reticence in this matter is the effect it might give his players. If Griffi and Cronin were to start shouting “pennant” the players might begin to feel that the battle was over. And a let-down over base ball, he does not take it in the doses in which the Bam accepts the game. Babe will radiate luster as long as he is in the pastime, no matter how far his batting drops. The Bam may lose speed in his legs, but untll he gets tongue-tied he will always be at least chattering his way to glory in his fa- vorite sport. SHOOT ON AT QUANTICO. Firing in the Midatlantic States regignal and national high-powered rifle land pistol championships opened todsy at Quantico, Va., and will con- tinue through Saturday. The National Rifle Association and Marine Corps are conducting the competition. FOX MUSICIARS HUSHED. A bese ball team representing the Chevy Chase Lake musicians walloped the Fox Theater musicians, 17 to 1, yes- terday on the South Ellipse. Kirk Miller and Sam Rubinton umpired. FOR YOUR HEALTHS SAKE | Carleton now would be disastrous. % ) SPORTS. Ace : Crisis at Hand, Yanks on Favored Ground BY TOM BOERER WESTERN RIDERS OUT T0 CINCH POLO TITLE Need One More Victory to Turn Back East in Upset—Hitchcock Mum on Line-Up. he Associated Press By of routing Capt. Tommy hand-picked band from the East in the all-star _intersectional polo champion- | ship series. Victors in the first engagement by the surprising margin of 15 to 11, the West- ern team needed only a victory today to clinch the series and hand the world of polo a distinct upset. The match was scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m., Central standard time, and more than 12000 s{xcta;ors were expected to watch the struggle. The Western team, managed by F. Burke. planned to send the same four against the East—Aidan Roark, Elmer Boeske, jr.; Cecil Smith, and H. W. “Rube” Williams, but Capt. Hitchcock copied the art cf silence from Connie Mack of has~ ha'l fame and kept his line-up a dark secret. MEXICANS GET COACH Allan Converse Will Thtor Grid Team, Sinclair Paying Bill MEXICO. D. F.. August 16 (/. —The | University of Mexico is to have a fo ball coach again next vear through the generosity of Harry F. Sinclair, wealthy oil man. Allan Converse, former Yale player. will arrive here late this week, Leopols Noriega, manager of the team, an- nounced today, and take charge of the squad that already has practiced & month on its cwn. Converse’s home is in Greenwich, Conn. Mexico's first game is scheduled with Mississippi College September 23 at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chi- cago as an adjunct to Mississippi day. s CAMPIONS FATTEN BN WETERN LU Botter Recort! (Mian Griffs Againet Teams of Hinderland. NOTHER ochapter, the last of the season, which has taken the Yankees West and brought the Western clubs of the National League East, now is being unfolded in the base ball wars. The sectional games are more in | favor of the Eastern clubs of the Amer- |ican League than of the Western. The | sectional games of the National League | are more in favor of the West than of the East. In the American League the East- ern clubs have won 126 contests from the Western and lost 89, to date. In the National League the Western clubs | have won 113 from the Eastern and lost 104. ‘This is a smart showing for Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Cin- cinnati, considering that the Giants | have held the league lead for some | weeks. The Yankees have won 34 and lost 20 to their Western rivals. Washing- |ton and Philadelphia have each won | 32 and lost 22 to the West. This rec- |ord clearly shows that it is the East- ern clubs that have beaten New York in the race thus far, and not the West. Yanks Facing Test. F the current trip of the Yankees means a record about similar to that which they have made thus far, they should win 9 or 10 games and lose 5 or 6. If they do any better than that they will go farther toward clinch- | ing the pennant on this trip than they have been able to do on either of the two preceding trips. If they do worse, their prospects virtually will be hope. less unless the Senators also bog down. In the National League the Western series begins in New York with a series |of games by Cincinnati. The Reds | have been the poorest winners from the East of any Western club. They have won 22 games and lost 32. It is foolish to predict what nati may do to New York, or New York may do to Cincinnati possibilities of this New York team are such that no one can tell what it will do next. Its timely hitting and its way of profiting by an error cropping up at just the right time have not been surpassed by any New York club in the last quarter of a century. It can win more games in which it seems as if defeat will be its part, through soms little one-horse play or some display of | meteoric speed than Giants of tha | 20s, Giants Mystery Club. ND s¢ with the St. Louis. HICAGO, August 16—Four daring. burgh and Chicago clubs from the West ride their mounts onto On- wentsia field today eager and confident Hitcheock's Giants may beat the West on thi last trip with a unanimity that will be marvelous, and on the contrar lose a lot of tough games by s 1t00 2to1l and 4 to 3. the mystery club of base ball you take into account that they began from nothing and have quietly worked their way to the top. ‘What the Chicago Cubs may do in the East this trip is vital ihey make a bad go of it, they will not be the champi 1933. If they should be able to win as many games as they lose. and one or two more, they will be strong con- tenders on thejr own ground for the remainder of the season. In their own perk the Cubs have won 34 games and lgst 20 to their Eastern rivals in the series to date. Fans’ écries nBi(ls Are Being Ignored FFICIALS of the Washington ball club are gratified over the confidence displaved by fans in the Naticnals' ability to win the pen- pant. as expressed by the hundr:ds of letters being received almost daily g.}kmz for world serfes reservations, ut— These requests are being consigncd to the waste basket, as will all such similar ones until announcement for- mally is made that reservations are in order. 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